Frank Carver's Punch Barrel

Although I like the idea of git, I find that I don’t actually use it often enough to have internalised the command-line options. Perhaps the easy integration between Eclipse and subversion has made me lazy

I recently noticed some git-specific tools, which might go some way to making such occasional use more palateable. For example, GitX is a Mac OS X GUI tool which monitors a git workspace and supports easy selection, evaluation, and committing of changes. More details in the GitX User Manual.

After playing with it a little, I can see that it is helpful for managing a local git workspace and repository. However, what is missing is any support for the relatively common scenario of grabbing the contents of a remote repository, making a sequence of changes and local commits, then sending back some or all of those commits to the remote repository.

This omission seems common. I have not found any Eclipse tools to help with this, either, which leaves arguably the fiddliest and least memorable part of the process in the realm of poorly-documented command line tools.

Anyone found anything to help manage this?